From: storm@uni-paderborn.de (Markus Storm) Subject: Re: CFC/CFI: XSysadmin Date: 8 Oct 1993 09:42:14 GMT
In article <291cls$efd@peanuts.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>, will@linus (Michael Will) writes:
|> Yes, but there is still one major problem. We have to separate the
|> functionality from the user-interface, because we cannot use X alone.
|> To many users do not use X because of lack of memory - these are most
|> likely to be happy to use such a tool like we want to write.
|> I think we have to provide a curses-interface as well - how this can
|> be done we should discuss.
Yes, that would also ease porting it (I already think of porting it to our SUNs,
- as most of the functionality probably isn't Linux-specific -
though not a single line of code has been written ;-) ).
And usually noone owns the "commercial" OI/UIB.
|> My thinking is like: use virtual-functions (late binding) to have the objects
|> communicate with the user with the apropriate methods for the selected
|> user-interface.
The best way to do this.
Though UIB is quite simple too use, doing subclassing needs further
documentation than supplied on-line (at least I had some problems).
So "C" programmers can supply functions code without working into OI.
|> Maybe we should create a mail-channel for this topic? If enough users
|> and developers are interested...
Yes. There's too much functionality needed than a single programmer can supply.
|> Cheers, Michael Will
More Cheers, Markus Storm